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The persistant faked injuries in futbol make these incidents even more dangerous. Notice how the players hardly bat an eyelash at the face-down, motionless player. Even the guy who kicked him protests his innocence to the ref before even looking back at his victim.

It's sad, the bad officiating and the faked injuries that go with it are the reason I can't really watch futbol.

Yellow card? Don't they have a 'kicking in danger' rule in soccer? Man, he'd get at least 3 weeks suspension in my code.

>> ^kymbos:

Yellow card? Don't they have a 'kicking in danger' rule in soccer? Man, he'd get at least 3 weeks suspension in my code.


It's called "Dangerous Play" and it's punished by an indirect free kick. But this was more than dangerous play because there was obvious contact and it was reckless. There's are argument to be made for a red card as in the player might have not cared if he had hurt the other player. The problem is we are only seeing a snippet of the game, and based on the incidents before this one would color the referees judgement quite considerably. Judging by the reactions of the players it wasn't necessarily a contentious game, so I'm leaning towards just calling a foul, the player looks to be legitimately trying to simply clear the ball out of harms way, he messed up he didn't try to hurt someone.

Again there's several ways to look at this...just a clip from a game does not tell us the whole story and the referee would use the experience of that game and the reactions of the players in his decision making process.

>> ^rychan:

It's sad, the bad officiating and the faked injuries that go with it are the reason I can't really watch futbol.


Try being an official sometime, it's harder than it looks. Sign up for a class we constantly need new officials because they're constantly quitting due to the extreme abuse and sometimes battery that they face every weekend.

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